DVB - PC Cards MediaPortal - mdapifilter won't work

[Talisman]

I have a FloppyDTV installed in my PC, latest drivers and updated firmware, Windows XP Pro/Vista dual boot. Trying to iron out the bugs in software before switching over to Vista and using a hard cam with the provided Media Centre.

When I do a scan with the provided software it finds 72 tv channels and some radio channels (Approx. half of what is available on the DreamBox). None of the tv channels will display in the provided software - presumably because of the encryption.

I installed MediaPortal and pieced together a .dvbc file using the files on my DreamBox. Did a scan and it found 122 tv channels which is a marked improvement on the previous 72 only. According to the MediaPortal Configuration all of the channels are encrypted (Red icon) yet when I open up Media Portal and go to My TV I can view some of the channels (From memory: The various flavours of EuroNews, British EuroSport, Setanta Ireland, Bubble Hits, City Channel, Channel Six, TV3, Discovery Channel, Discovery Knowledge).

It got more bizarre - I installed Nagra, Fenrir and Yankse following the tutorial on the happysat forum and things looked good for about a minute. The keys found matched those on the DreamBox and then Dr.Watson reared its ugly head. It seemed that when ever Fenrir picked up the keys the error would occur and MediaPortal had to close.

I made a copy of the .dvbc file, uninstalled MediaPortal, rebooted, re-installed MediaPortal and now I can't get the mdapifilter plugin to work. It won't pop up on the status bar no matter what I do.

 

[neathdrew]

when scanning in vista, only the fta channels show...you then go into settings - tv - guide - edit channels and you should see the encrypted channels. u have to then check the box to see the channel.

 

[Talisman]

At present I'm using Media Portal on Windows XP Pro. I want to get the software cam version working before switching over to Vista and using a hard cam in Media Centrre. Apologies for not making this clear in the first post.

When you say check the box, I presume this is in Media Portal Configuration >> Television >> TV Channels. In which case all the boxes are checked. The channel list shows up in "My TV" within Media Portal.

The problem I'm having is getting the mdapifilter stuff working again. It hasn't worked since I first got the Dr. Watson errors.

 

[neathdrew]

At present I'm using Media Portal on Windows XP Pro. I want to get the software cam version working before switching over to Vista and using a hard cam in Media Centrre. Apologies for not making this clear in the first post.

When you say check the box, I presume this is in Media Portal Configuration >> Television >> TV Channels. In which case all the boxes are checked. The channel list shows up in "My TV" within Media Portal.

The problem I'm having is getting the mdapifilter stuff working again. It hasn't worked since I first got the Dr. Watson errors.

sorry m8 never used mediaportal went headfirst into vista with hardcam and card...took a bit of setting up but it's been fine since i set it up last october....

i used a softcam on my pc with mytheatre, xp pro but as i had a spare cam/card i now also set up a hardcam. as a few people have been having issues with the softcam and the recently frequent keyrolls i set my softcam back up and it works fine if i put the keys in manually but it looks as if fenrir doesn't auto-update any more - using v1.05.2 fenrir and v1.3.2.1/U TT Yankse

cheers

 

[nozzer]

...... Did a scan and it found 122 tv channels which is a marked improvement on the previous 72 only. According to the MediaPortal Configuration all of the channels are encrypted (Red icon) yet when I open up Media Portal and go to My TV I can view some of the channels (From memory: The various flavours of EuroNews, British EuroSport, Setanta Ireland, Bubble Hits, City Channel, Channel Six, TV3, Discovery Channel, Discovery Knowledge).

Many channels are soft encrypted. That basically means that they are marked as being encrypted but dont actually have an encryption algorithm applied to the video/audio streams. Being marked as encrypted though, allows the CAM on a normal digibox to still maintain control of the program so, for instance, the program could be denied if the correct tier is not present on the card. There is no physical reason why the box cant actually display the channel, it simply recognises that its not supposed to do so (hence the name - soft encryption).

Things like dboxes/dreamboxes etc tend to ignore the encryption flag and will always try to display a picture if they possibly can.

 

[Talisman]

I've now acquired a Diablo cam, CAS3 and some cards from a guy in work for use over the weekend. I've downloaded the CAS Interface Studio 8.3a software and updated the cam to the latest Stealth I could find which was 2.32. I've also put all the Nagravision details I had on to the cam but have had no joy with it.

I've went back to the software to try another approach, this time using My Theatre. Installed the software, added Fenrir and Yankse etc., went through the configuration and it picked up all of the channels (142). Opened up the Yankse and Fenrir windows to see whats happening and it appears that Fenrir is seeing the keys but not doing anything with them.

For example Channel 6 appears fine in My Theatre, so I switch the channel to something that's encrypted and wait.

Fenrir reports something like this:

You don't have permission to view the code content. Log in or register now.

Looking at the keys ROM 10 & 11 use the same key and there appears to be only one character in the difference between that key and the ROM 7 one.

Where do I go from here? I'd like to get the software thing working before delving into the realm of hardware cams. I might try making a funcard for the Diablo but I can't see that working out either if the emulation isn't.

 

[Talisman]

i used a softcam on my pc with mytheatre, xp pro but as i had a spare cam/card i now also set up a hardcam. as a few people have been having issues with the softcam and the recently frequent keyrolls i set my softcam back up and it works fine if i put the keys in manually but it looks as if fenrir doesn't auto-update any more - using v1.05.2 fenrir and v1.3.2.1/U TT Yankse

I've got Fenrir v1.05.3 and Yankse v1.3.2.1/U TT. I might try switching to Fenrir 1.05.2 to see if that works.

 

[neathdrew]

I've got Fenrir v1.05.3 and Yankse v1.3.2.1/U TT. I might try switching to Fenrir 1.05.2 to see if that works.

have u got the latest keys? if so manually put them in the softcam.key file.

ps: the 00 n*t*l keys in the extra cp is out of date, it should read 8D 19 ** ** ** ** ** **, if u need them pm me

 

[Talisman]

The keys I'm using have been taken from my DreamBox. The contents of the NagraKey.txt file came from RapidShare.

What should the contents of SoftCam.key be? I don't have that file. I have a SoftCam.key.used which is empty.

 

[neathdrew]

The keys I'm using have been taken from my DreamBox. The contents of the NagraKey.txt file came from RapidShare.

What should the contents of SoftCam.key be? I don't have that file. I have a SoftCam.key.used which is empty.

you edit the softcam.key.used file assuming ur in a pure nthell area like

N 5401 00 8D19************** ;ROM7 AU Key Time Fri Jan 11 16:25:58 2008
N 5401 01 0AC0************** ;ROM7 AU Key Time Fri Jan 11 16:25:58 2008

and save it as softcam.key in ur plugins folder, obviously use latest keys to replace **

 

[wonko]

ok - had those keys in softcam.key for a couple of days now - tried both vplug and yankse - still get no decyrption of encrypted channels - in mediaportal or progdvb

any idea's lol

 

[neathdrew]

ok - had those keys in softcam.key for a couple of days now - tried both vplug and yankse - still get no decyrption of encrypted channels - in mediaportal or progdvb

any idea's lol

never tried those apps i know the files work in mytheatre....

just updated the softcam.key file in ritzdvb and pulled the hardcam and all channels cleared so as long as u r in a pure nthell area, yankse should work if u have the latest keys....

 

[cafe.racer]

Does this help:

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?resources/1809/

The keys will be out of date, but everything else will work.

I've not got a funcard to work with the diablo, I've been told it's not possible.

 

[wonko]

I can now get it to work with vplug in progdvb - entering keys manually - problem is same thing doesnt work in mediaportal - only difference as far as I know is mdapfilter isnt used in progdvb

 

[Talisman]

Just got My Theatre working! The keys rolled twice today ROM7 and ROM10. It turns out that the Softcam.key file is the exact same as the Keylist.txt file on the DreamBox so a little script will take care of the updating process for the soft cam implementation. Thanks for all the help.

I'm going to tackle the Diablo now.

 

[Talisman]

Does this help:

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?resources/1809/

The keys will be out of date, but everything else will work.

I've not got a funcard to work with the diablo, I've been told it's not possible.

I followed your guide but it's refusing to play nice. Everything is the exact same except the keys. I inserted the two ROM7 keys from the latest key roll. When I start up My Theatre it pops up the CI utility window which informs me that the keys are out of date and I should insert a card.

I'll give it another go tomorrow - going to bed now as wife is quite pissed off with me playing with this stuff all day.